Category: United Nations

Why Is the UN Dictating Canada’s Provincial Health Policies?

Commentary This sickness doth infect/ The very life-blood of our enterprise. — Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1 According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, “Autoimmune disease happens when the body’s natural defense system can’t tell the difference between your own cells and foreign cells, causing the body to mistakenly attack normal cells.” Canada’s health bureaucracy is now…


Australia to invest $25.6m in the UN’s Junior Professional Officer Program

Australia will invest $25.6 million (US$ 18.51 million) over the next four years to assist young Australian professionals in gaining experience at international institutions that are critical to Australia’s interests. The fund will be used to sponsor the United Nations’ Junior Professional Officer Program, which recruits Junior Professional Officers (JPOs) for the UN Secretariat and…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 22)

The U.S. will donate an additional 500 million vaccine doses to other countries, video shot by a federal worker is raising questions about whether doctors are reporting adverse vaccine reactions like they’re required to, and Brazil’s President attends the United Nations assembly in New York City unvaccinated despite the city’s mayor saying said he couldn’t come.


Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Uses UN Platform to Level Criticism Against US

Xi Jinping took several jabs at Washington on Sept. 21, in a prerecorded speech to the United Nations’ 76th General Assembly. Separately, President Joe Biden has been criticized by Republican lawmakers for failing to use his speech at the U.N. headquarters in New York to hold China accountable on a number of issues. “Recent developments…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 21)

Authorities are clearing the encampment under the Del Rio Bridge in Texas, President Joe Biden addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City Tuesday, and Democrats and Republicans in Congress are debating the details to avoid an economic catastrophe.


Biden Uses First UN Address to Call for Global Community to ‘Seize Opportunities’ in Tackling Crises

President Joe Biden called for deep global engagement and a shared future in his first address since taking office before the United Nations Tuesday at the UN’s 76th General Assembly at its headquarters in New York City. Biden told the room full of leaders the world is at an “inflection point in history” and nations…


UN Releases New Synthesis Report on National-Level Emissions Cuts

The United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) on Sept. 17 released its synthesis report detailing nationally determined contributions to meeting the Paris Agreement’s targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The report concluded that the planet is on its way to exceeding the Paris targets of 1.5 degrees and 2 degrees C warming above pre-industrial…


UN Warns Artificial Intelligence May Pose ‘Negative, Even Catastrophic’ Threat to Human Rights

The United Nations has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) systems may pose a “negative, even catastrophic” threat to human rights and called for AI applications that are not used in compliance with human rights to be banned. U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Sept. 15 urged members states to put a temporary ban on the sale and use…


‘Wall of the Disappeared’: US-Backed Uyghur Exhibit Opens in Geneva

GENEVA—A U.S.-backed Uyghur photo exhibit of dozens of people who are missing or alleged to be held in Chinese-run camps in Xinjiang, China, opened in Switzerland on Thursday amid high tensions over human rights between Beijing and Washington. The “Wall of the Disappeared” which also features interviews with camp survivors about alleged forced sterilization stands…


UN Power Grab

Commentary Last year, Dr. Anthony Fauci advocated that the United Nations be given the power to “rebuild the infrastructures of human existence.” Sounds audacious, right? Not to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. He’s all in. The U.N. apparatchik’s ambition became clear with the release of his “Our Common Agenda,” an 85-page report (pdf) that describes Guterres’s…